THE TRUE STORY OF BUTTERFISH
Book ID/图书代码： 01160007B19638
English Summary/英文概要： “’I’m not about to attack,’ she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her fringe. Her eyes were dark and already she was playing some kind of game with me, or that’s how it seemed. Her voice was a little deeper and huskier than I might have expected, so her last line had come out with a hint of something that might have been menace or even seductiveness or just a pitch at adult banter. Whatever it was, it stuck with me and it punctuated the moment and it didn’t feel quite right for a conversation with a schoolgirl on my doorstep.” When Annaliese Winter walks down Curtis Holland’s front path and into his life, he’s ill-prepared for a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who’s a confounding and seductive mixture of adult and child. After years travelling the world with his successful band, Butterfish, he’s not used to having a neighbour at all, let alone one who appears unimpressed by the slightly chubby ex-rock star next door.
So when Curtis receives an invitation to dinner from Annaliese’s mother, Kate, no one is more surprised than he is when he not only accepts but finds himself being drawn to this remarkably unremarkable family. Even to Mark, a sebaceous fifteen-year-old at war with his own surging adolescence.
As Curtis gets to know the Winters, he soon realises that with Kate divorced, Annaliese and Mark need a male role model in their lives, but it’s hard for him to help when he’s just starting to grow up himself and struggling to deal with the death of his father, and harder still when Annaliese begins to show an interest in him that is less than filial.
Filled with acute observation, humour and tenderness, The True Story of Butterfish is Nick Earls at his very best.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我不是想冒犯”，她撇嘴傻笑着对我说，透过刘海看着我。她的眼睛是黑色的，她总喜欢作弄我。
她的声音比我预期的沙哑低沉，因此她的最后一句话听起来有点像威胁，甚至是诱惑或者成人间的玩笑。不管怎样，它困扰我，它打乱了我的平静，总觉得不应该和一个女学生在我门前的台阶上进行这番对话。
当Annaliese Winter路过Curtis Holland家门前时，他手足无措，她是一个令人困惑又独具诱惑力的混合体，既像成人又像小孩。多年来和他成功的乐队满世界旅行，他早就习惯了没有邻居，更不要说是一个人出现了，但对隔壁的身材略胖的钱摇滚明星却毫无反应。
因此，当Curtis收到来自Annaliese的母亲Kate的晚宴邀请函时，没有人比他本人更惊讶。他不仅接受了邀请同时发现自己被这不起眼的家庭吸引了。甚至是对马克，一个15岁的内分泌旺盛的青春期少年也一样。
当Curtis开始了解到Winter一家，发现Kate离婚了，Annaliese 和Mark的生活中需要一个男性依靠时，他却无能为力，因为他自己才刚刚开始成长发育，挣扎着摆脱父亲去世的阴影。当Annaliese开始对他表示好感时，一切变得更加迷茫。
《鲳鱼的真实故事》充满着敏锐的观察，幽默和柔情，是Nick Earls的巅峰之作。(兼职翻译-PZ)
Awards/获奖情况：“像所有好歌一样，《鲳鱼的真实故事》将你带上情感之旅，使你欲罢不能。”--- Shane Nicholson
“笔触有力，多轨混合，将生活中酸甜苦辣完美交织在一起又极其平衡……《鲳鱼的真实故事》排行冠军，这个批评家也是。”--- Nigel Krauth,澳大利亚
“在《鲳鱼的真实故事》一书中，Earls走入了一个深刻的更富有同情心的境地。故事的背景是在布里斯班，不是一个人物。寻找Curtis Holland是痛苦辛酸的（也有几处大笑的场景）.此书有真实的心德，能吸引很多粉丝，但同时又能确保和他们建立新的读者关系。--- Matthew Condon, Qmagazine
“这是一个柔情而又有趣的故事，讲述了一个男人最终向成人世界妥协，感人但又不和颜悦色。”--- Chris Hook，每日电信
“《鲳鱼的真实故事》与Earls一贯喜欢写的失恋故事一致，但又与之前作品的格调不一样。如果你已经阅读并爱上了它，你可能会改变一点预期值。少了点尖酸刻薄的狡狯，有的总是绅士风度，以那么柔和的笔触描写了一个绝望的人深陷困境，这个人可能就是我们中的任何一个。”----Emma Young, The Ag
“Earls书中的人物棒极了，他们秘密进行的对话，互相联系时用脚尖偷偷摸摸地走路等，这些非语言的不经意的细节不禁让人发笑。”--- The Sunday Age
About the Author/作者介绍： Nick Earls已经写了许多成功的批判类或商业类成人小说，包括《Z字街》，《单身汉之吻》，《完美的肌肤和鸡的世界》，还有其他畅销成人小说。
《Z字街》赢得了英国Betty Trask Award ，《布朗的48副墨镜》赢得了2000年儿童读物协会，较年长读者年终大奖。
本书的电影改编版于2006年面世。Nick的一些其他小说也被改编成电影或电视剧，还有3部被改编成了戏剧。
Nick目前正在收集一些短篇小说，计划于2013年出版。
Nick Earls has written numerous critically and commercially successful adult novels, including Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin and World of Chickens, as well as bestselling young adult novels.
Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK and 48 Shades of Brown won the 2000 Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. The film adaptation of the book was released in 2006. A number of Nick’s other novels are being adapted for film or television and three have been adapted for theatre.
Nick is currently working on a collection of short stories for publication in 2013.
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